had been existing
- past perfect progressive of exist.
Example Sentences
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Police did not offer information on whether there had been existing investigations into those cases.
From BBC ● Apr. 6, 2023
These extraordinary gifts came just in time, Zollar says, because her company had been existing “hand to mouth.”
From Washington Post ● Oct. 11, 2021
And Herman Weckler, up-from-the-ranks vice president & general manager of Chrysler & De Soto Corp., testified that labor espionage had been existing for years.
From Time Magazine Archive
She would not be certain that feeling had been existing.
From Matisse Picasso and Gertrude Stein With Two Shorter Stories by Stein, Gertrude
If they had been existing on the burned-out desolate moon they could hardly have been in a harsher, grimmer, lonelier spot than this red-walled arroyo.
From Desert Gold by Grey, Zane
